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The inconsequential news quiz: The Prez Billy Jeff edition

1. During an appearance on "The Colbert Report," Bill Clinton told host Stephen Colbert he was a little "insecure" about the whole Twitter thing. Nonetheless, Colbert convinced him to send out a Tweet on an account (@PrezBillyJeff) created for the occasion. What did it say?

2. The Clinton Foundation, whose global work reaches far beyond supporting the presidential center, recently announced that it's changed its name. What's it now called?

A) McClinton's

B) Willie C. and the Fabulous Clintonettes

C) The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation

D) The Many Magnitudes Better than George W. Bush Foundation

3. Last weekend, the Clinton School for Public Service hosted Little Rock's First Start-up Weekend, a rapidly paced event where programmers, designers and others meet and mingle, pitch start-up ideas, form teams around the best ideas and then work furiously to develop a business plan. One of the winners was called VidLibs. What does it do?

A) Opens a blessed, blessed wormhole to return us all to the Clinton years.

B) Gives a job to James Carville. He'll take any job. Seriously. Call him.

C) Replaces words with videos in a MadLibs style game.

D) Creates custom-embroidered bathrobes for ex-presidents.

4. On Monday, a Senate committee endorsed legislation that would cap the total number of types of specialty license plates to whatever that number is Jan. 1, 2014. Just before the committee approved the cap, it sent two bills that would create additional specialty plates to the full Senate. What organizations did those plates represent?

A) The Foundation for Finding Jason Rapert's Brain and The Foundation for the Foundation for Finding Jason Rapert's Brain.

B) One was for employees of ExxonMobil Corporation. We're forbidden from reporting on the other. Now move along.

C) Arkansas Rice Council and Rotary International

D) The Society to Prevent the Theft of License Plates and The Association for the Advancement of Tacky Wall Art in Country Cookin' Restaurants.

5. The House approved a bill to reduce the permit fee for concealed weapons for a certain group of people from $100 to $50. What is the group?

A) Those with itchy trigger fingers.

B) Anyone who says today's 109.4 FM phrase that pays: "I'm at work listening to Kook Conroy and the Morning Zoo!"

C) People 65 and older.

D) The stingy and terrified.

6. The House recently approved a proposal to allow Arkansans to sell something that's previously been against the law to sell. What would the bill allow?

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